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  "thread": {
    "id": 1850,
    "subject": "Digest urth.v028.n060 Original Forms",
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    "first": "1999-10-25T23:51:18+00:00",
    "last": "1999-10-25T23:51:18+00:00"
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      "message_id": "<urth-v0028-0226@digest.urth.net>",
      "from": {
        "name": "Patri10629",
        "address": "patri10629 at aol.com"
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      "date": "1999-10-25T23:51:18+00:00",
      "subject": "(urth) Re: Digest urth.v028.n060 Original Forms",
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          "text": "Rave on Lupes!\n\nThe discourse has trickled right up my alley.\n\nTo put Alga's point a bit more crudely: I love the fact that Wolfe has taken \nthe base materials of given/cliched genre forms and transformed them. The \nmost decadent and  successful form of recent popular literature: the extended \nsf/fantasy sequence, becomes, in his hands, something (I would argue) \noriginal. Form isn't everything. Unless you think three chords can't make a \ngreat original pop song. (Robert Johnson, \"Gloria\")\n\nHeck he even plays with the forms: 2:the failed trilogy (the soldier books), \n5: a quatrian (right word?) and a coda (New Sun), 4: the incomplete (or sall \nwe say \"dangling\") quatrain (Long Sun) and, 3: a trilogy (short sun). 12 \nbooks in the Sun series. Hmmm. A trilogy in 12 parts. What do you call that?\n\nWouldn't it be funny if, years from now, someone postulates that the Sun \nbooks are really One book?\n\nIncidently, the extended series form allows him an income spread over \nyears--not a little matter, buds. \n\nApologies for being redundant and obvious. And, Alga, I Like it when you get \npompous.\n\nbest,\n\nPatrick O'Leary"
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